CDO-cubed

English Alternative forms en CDO cubed Noun en finance A type of CDO (collateralized debt obligation) that invests in CDO-squareds. en 2005 Jan Job de Vries Robbé; Paul U. Ali Securitisation of Derivatives and Alternative Asset Classes: Yearbook 2005 Kluwer Law International 41 Given the number of CDO Squared transactions in the marketplace, and the continued narrowing of corporate spreads, the emergence of CDO Cubed could be regarded as almost inevitable. en 2009 Les Leopold The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity and What We Can Do About It Chelsea Green Publishing 92 But what if you can't sell all the bottom tranches of the CDO-squared securities? You guessed it. You form another pool of those untouchables—called a CDO cubed—and tranche away again. en 2012 Oonagh McDonald Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream into a Nightmare Bloomsbury Academic 317 A CDO squared is a CDO that only uses other CDOs as collateral. The CDO cubed is a special purpose vehicle with securitization payments in the form of tranches. A CDO cubed is backed by CDO squared tranches, allowing the banks to resell the credit risk they had taken once again by repackaging their CDO-squared.